By Theresa Farnan, Ph.D. In a growing national divide, 16 states have recently passed laws limiting or banning “gender transition” procedures, while three states — and counting — have declared themselves “trans […]
A new Utah law, SB 287, which went into effect on Wednesday, May 3, began to restrict minors’ access to pornographic websites. The law requires websites that distribute “pornography and other […]
HUNTINGTON, Indiana (OSV News) — Our Sunday Visitor, one of the largest Catholic resource providers in the world, announced on May 5 an incident regarding data security within the company […]
A recent Pew Research Center study caught the eye of many Catholics, despite the fact that the information the study conveyed wasn’t really news. Latinos are disaffiliating from the Catholic […]
“I don’t believe in that,” widely censored author Judy Blume scoffed in a recent interview with Variety magazine, responding to news that Puffin Books would revise Roald Dahl’s works. Dahl […]
The Catholic Church today can, in an important sense, be described as a Church in upheaval. A significant part of that reality arises from the fact that the Church does […]
From the first moments of Russia’s unprovoked invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, the Church in the United States united in praying for a swift, peaceful resolution to the […]
By the Our Sunday Visitor Editorial Board Often European and American Catholics cite the Church in Africa as the future of the Church. The World Christian Database projects that, by […]
By Paulina Guzik (OSV News) — Very few figures within the contemporary Church have influenced it as deeply and for as long as Pope Benedict XVI, who died on Dec. […]
Charles Dickens writes in the preface to his famous story “A Christmas Carol”: “I have endeavoured in this Ghostly little book, to raise the Ghost of an Idea, which shall […]
Five major pro-life ballot measures saw defeat on Election Day. Months have passed since Russia invaded Ukraine, leaving cities destroyed and tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians dead. Americans […]
Finding silver linings within the destabilizing and tumultuous years of the COVID-19 pandemic is not always easy. But the major shifts that took place in public life as a result […]
